DreamingOutLoud
Emotional Type
Technique
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Who is the
The DreamingOutLoud Technique for?
Actor
Once you know your purpose & your gifts, no one can take that away from you or make you feel like less than. When you know your worth, you're unstoppable.
An actor with years of training, tons of credits & still collecting and still play stereotypical roles with no depth? Here's a secret: every other single job in the world pays employees more money each year as they gain experience or employees will leave. Acting is the only profession I know of where people do the same exact job, the same exact way for their entire careers while making the same amount of money or wrestle with being constantly unemployed. 1. Find work that has meaning for you & creates stable income by learning your unique gifts as an artist. 2. Learn your for major emotional chords that make you uniquely qualified to play a host of characters who look nothing like you, but their souls resonate with your life journey. 2. Find an agent/manager who is as gifted at their craft of representing you as you are at the craft of storytelling/acting. 3. How to use your EMOTIONAL TYPE to create a unique personal brand that broadens the scope and depth of the roles you're offered and learn to create these roles or option scripts with roles that fit you soul's journey and move your career to the next level. |
Writer
The writer working a day job watching your peers get published, join TV show writing teams, go on book tours, premiere at Sundance while you work the day job you thought would give you security, but really it's just blocking your dreams & exhausting your spirit.
Here's the skinny: writers block is fear in drag. The block is an emotional one because you are not in line with your purpose, your life mission, that's where the richest, most profound storytelling lives -- in the stories your soul already knows. SIGNUP TO LEARN HOW 1. Figure Out Your four major emotional chords (the life lessons you were put here to get right this time) These are the keys to learning your purpose and the key emotional and psychological issues you're an expert at exploring as you create character & story in line with your recurring emotional chords. 2. Find the money and the time to support your writing 3. Move past WritersBlock (fear in drag) & having too many irons in the fire to accomplish your goal |
Dreamer
A mid-life genius bored with your job, disillusioned by the promise that money would make everything alright, worried that there are more years behind you than in front of you & you've barely scratched the surface of your dreams?
PSSSST You wouldn't want more unless you were actually put here to do more bec nothing good comes out of your comfort zone. SIGNUP TO LEARN HOW TO 1. Find work that has meaning for you & creates stable income 2. Because once you know your purpose, saying 'no' to things that no longer serve you is easy. 3. Cut the fat & work smarter, not harder so that pursuing your dream becomes do-able even with all of your other obligations (family, day job, etc) |
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DreamingOutLoud Emotional Type Technique:
12 Week MasterMind Group
6 Week MasterClass
& Recorded Online Course
12 STEP
DreamingOutLoud Emotional Type Course Self-Driven Online Course Don't Wait til next year! Can't wait until next year. 12 Step DreamingOutLoud Emotional Type Online Course is on sale for 40% OFF for a limited time HOW IT WORKS You'll have your own private DreamUnlocked account which allows you to log on to the 12 Step ONLINE class where you can access videos, recorded classes, workbooks and all the exercises that we do in the 6 Week MasterClass. So essentially, you're getting the recorded version of the 6 Week MasterClass. OVERVIEW ---------- Curriculum is the same as the 6 Week Master Class GET THE TOOLS TO FIGURE OUT YOUR FOUR MAJOR EMOTIONAL CHORDS 1. Using the DreamingOutLoud Technique's exercises: ListsMaking, Questions, Reframing with the Anatomy of a Lie, True Node North Analysis to establish major recurring emotional themes in both your personal and professional life 2. Identify your core Soul's Song for your emotional branding so that you can package yourself. You'll leave with all four of your major emotional types shaped and crafted into a brand for your website. 3. How to Prepare for Emotional Type Headshot Shoot & Selection of Final Photos BONUSES - 12 monthly MasterClasses - 12 Monthly Newsletters - Bonus Weekly Weapons Exercises that build on each month's masterclass - Exclusive membership in TheDreamUnLocked BadAssActors, Writers & Dreamers secret Facebook group . This group is a place to get questions about the work answered, to interact with your classmates and peers as well as the instructors.** You can do all of this work on your own friendly, supportive coach as April guides you through each exercise during the videos and helps you complete each worksheet. You'll leave this class with a 12 Step DreamingOutLoud Emotional Type Handbook and a bucket-full of strategies to get your agents sending you out twice as much and a new way to audition that builds your confidence and your specificity in audition room. BONUSES ========== If you buy the class in the next 7 days, you're eligible for the 40% discount. This discount is only open to TheDreamUnLocked Community, so act fast and start getting the "private virtual coaching" you need to change your career into the career of your dreams. This is a recorded option where you drive your process and there are no live class options beyond the monthly office hours available. |
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Meet
Hilary Ward,
NCIS & Sharp
Objects Star
PROBLEM
What happens in the audition room and why you do all of this preparation and then nothing happens.
Or you start the scene and you feel as if the camera is not listening, everything slows down and you feel yourself sucking but don't know how to fix it.
PROBLEM
Want Your Agent to Fight for Auditions for Roles You Were Born to Play?
PROBLEM
What do you do when there's not enough work for your type & you need to convince your reps and CDs to take a chance on the artist, not just the type?
SOLUTION
THE EMOTIONAL CHORDS FORCE YOU TO SEE YOUR WORTH, MAKE YOUR OWN WORK & MANAGE YOUR REPRESENTATION BY GIVING THEM AN EMOTIONAL BRANDING STRATEGY
SOLUTION
Here's the kind of power you get once you know your emotional chords. Hilary's inner reality after doing the emotional chords completely changed. She understood her power and stopped waiting for the industry to give her a career...she took what was rightfully hers.
The DreamingOutLoud Technique Transformation
Once she understood her power, her unique voice, she became unstoppable and her team started following her lead. She went from no work, to recurring spots, twice the money and new representation ....
Step One: Learn your chords, learn your power
Step Two: Put that knowledge, that emotional brand it into action....Self-Love & Growth are actions:
Make your own work,
Get a team behind you and give them an emotional brand to pitch.
Meet Angela Lewis
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Listen to Angela talk about how she made the move from doing literally 100s of off broadway theatre plays to becoming a series regular, getting married and moving to LA in one year.
I cast Angela in two different workshops of my play _Good Bread Alley,_ one at New York Stage & Film and the other at New York Theatre Workshop.
She was brillant. But I had to fight the casting director and director to hire her because they had no way to see her work.
Why, she had no tape, no online presence.
And guess what: casting directors who cast for Sundance, film, primetime, don't have time to be running to off broadway plays everynight to see theatre actors.
_Why, because they're casting shows every single fucking day way into the night. _
_So, they pull from actors with credits first or whose on camera work they have seen or can easily access._
_That's why utube stars and reality tv stars get TV shows....they have an online presence._
It has jack shit to do with talent....
Because there are tons of talented people working in TV & Film, so if you were a casting director where would you go: to the talented TV/Film actor with experience, or the theatre actor with no on camera experience if you had to cast 60 roles in 24 hours?
People don't have time for you to catch up and smell the coffee....while Aziz Anzari is writing his own TV show and winning emmys on Netflix.
**That's how it gets done. **
**Make your shit, put it online, get a following and the industry will find you.**
After the first workshop of my play (if you saw the FREE class where Angela was a guest, you know that she tells the story of how I terrorized her on the first day of rehearsal saying,
"Girl, why the hell don't you have a website. You almost lost this job. On the real."
I wasnt' trying to be a bitch. I was trying to let a brillant actor know how hard it was for me to fight for her to get this job because no one knew here work on the team and no one had a place to go online to see her work.
Casting Directors were sending the director reels...and that's how the show was being cast...that's how films and tv are cast...no one even calls you in if they've not seen your reel.
So, after I yelled at Angela...she got in gear...
In this kick ass [VIDEO](http://thedreamunlocked.com?link_list=1243848), she lays out the game plan:
How she started listening to my webinars, taking notes...emailing me questions.
I saw her again after my play workshop at an audition for a play at Bernie Telsey. A play where she was playing the same exact character she had played in over 20 different off broadway plays. I said to her,
"You better getting your tiny, beautiful little ass to LA and get on a goddamn TV show while you still look 12 years. You 30 theatre greats...whohoo....we all know you can act, but right now, the only people gettting paid for your acting are the playwrights, while you're starving....you ain't got forever to make your mark. I bet not see you up in this casting office this time next years talking about a off broadway play playing another 12 year old. Gurl...."
Yes, I have no filter...but I speak the truth that brillant artists who were made for this work need to hear. I saw how hard Angela worked on her craft, how she showed up to rehearsal off book, with the dialect, all her research done. She was miles ahead of other actors. She was ready for someone to pay her $25,000 per episode for her craft. She had earned that.
The next year, she got married and her and her husband moved to LA.
She emailed me about the transition. I took her through how to get set up in LA. Then she took my How to Be a MotherF*ckin Actor Class...nailed it...
- She packaged herself
**- Fine-tuned her audition technique to master the tone of a show**
**- Got agent/manager meetings**
**- used her brand to get signed and get a wide variety of different kinds of roles she went out for (not just ones who were physically right for)**
**- And within a year, she booked a couple of films and the starring role on John Singleton's new hit FX show "SnowFall"**
Did she stop there? Nope.
As soon as she got the role, she emailed me and said...okay, what business strategy do I use to capitalize on this?
In this video, Angela walks you through her process.
But let me digress,
Here's what Angela didn't do:
1. She didn't take my free classes forever and never invest in her career
2. She didn't move back home and rely on her family to support her
3. She didn't not find a stable safety job to raise money for her career, find a stable place to live and have the free time and resources to prepare for auditions.
4. She figured out a way to get financially stable first which is the first thing every actor should do...
How
Brittany Mirabile
went from an
unemployed actress
to the star of
The Purge III
I met Brittany in 2010 when I was teaching at The Maggie Flanigan Studios. She wanted my advice on entering the business as a natural-haired black woman.
My response: "Be a badass...not just as an actor. No one in the industry gives a flying f*ck about your talent. What they care about is what business strategy you've put in place that will actually give you the opportunity to show people how talented you are.
Wear a wig if the character is amazing, but not someone who would wear natural hair. You're being hired to be an "acrobat of the human condition," which means we want to see you transform, not just play your damn self.
Now sign up for my newsletter so you can learn some business strategy."
And Brittany did.
5 years later, Brittany emailed me and asked me if I was still coaching. I said, I'm coaching actors who win, not actors who just talk about their dreams. Which one are you?
Brittany said, "OMG...that's me. Let's do it! Yay!
Brittany started coaching that same week. We'd meet in person, Skype or by phone weekly without fail.
Brittany's major issue was representation and not having any idea how to package and sell herself. She was credited under several different names because she thought her real name would be too complicated, so she was using shortened versions of her first and middle name. She's bi-racial, so she also thought, she didn't want to make it harder for folks to cast her by having an Italian-sounding last name.
I looked at her and said,
"Seriously, are you crae crae? First off, there are thousands of women with your first name, Brittany and your middle name Bridgette. But there is only one Black/Italian Brittany Mirabilé...and that unique mix will stick in the memory. Besides which, "racially ambiguous" actors are working like motherf*ckers because there's a whole lot less of them AND they can play 3, 4, 5 different races from black, to carribbean, to middle eastern, to latin, etc. So you get to audition 3 times as much as the regular black actors....pshawww...Let's get to work."
Brittany had to decide if she wanted to continue doing web series and student films that never saw the light of day or if she was ready to package herself and begin a marketing strategy that would get her major TV/Film auditions.
Brittany Mirabilé's F*ck It Moment
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Her F*ck It Moment arrived the day she bought her first coaching package with me. See, I require that all my clients finish the package in 3 months. After which time it expires. What that forces the client to do is stay on task with the weekly homework and finish the goals we've laid laid out for ourselves in the first session.
Brittany & Goal Setting
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The goals are have to be:
1. Measurable: set parameters that are completely within the your power to achieve
2. They must be concrete and specific.
Brittany's goal was to identify her type and package it so that she would get noticed in the industry. Well, that required the following:
**- Building her brand: which entails creating a hardcopy press kit and an online press kit consisting of : headshot, resume, reel, emotional chords, contact info. But here's the kicker: It's not just any old press kit...it's a a the commercial of the total you. Its sophisticated marketing strategy to get folks to feel the depths of your should just by looking at your picture. And pretty won't do that, nor will some vague idea of what you play in your head.**
You have to learn how to sell this brand and train your manager/agents to use the script you give them to sell you...
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The branding tools would be shaped by what her emotional brand is and what part of the industry was her focus. In Brittany's case, it was film/TV.
So, to recap, the steps Brittany took and the ones you'd be taking in my class are:
- Establishing your emotional types & creating a clear brand that sticks in the memory
- Targeting Industry professionals to get them to call you in a lot for Film/TV and get agents/managers to notice you and get excited about your work.
The Center of Range Exercise
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Brittany and I spent 3 hours fine-tuning this process. The Center of Range Exercise sked a lot of Brittany. She had to dig deep into acting choices, recurring powerful emotions in the body of work that she used to complete the Center of Range Exercise.
Everyone thinks they can talk to me for 15 minutes and decide that their emotional chord is a strong black woman fighting for justice.
That's some silly bullshit because that could be anyone. When the Center of Range Exercise is done well. The actor has spent a good 60 hours doing research and the 1:1 session with me is about 3 hours long.
If the Center of Range exercise is done correctly, what you come up will probably be characters and emotional chords usually played by people who look completely different from you in gender, race, age, language.
The key is that the Center of your range are your specific, archetypal (meaning eternal and universally human) emotional heartspots. Stuff that is so close to your soul that you could play that part with your eyes closed. And to figure that out, you gotta spend the time (Like Brittany did) and get it right. Because when you do, the results are extraordinary.
By the end our 3 hours of work, we had 4 major emotional chords that we could begin to package. Brittany always been cast as the sweet little sister with no edge because of her physical presentation. But her soul is a funny, tough over-achiever with a competitive edge. That's one of the things we learned from this exercise. With that in mind, we were able to shape her press kit to get her seen for stuff with more of an edge and character work even though she works the leading lady/ingenue thing just based on her looks.
**Getting the Center of Range exercise right creates opportunity, opens doors to work you never dreamed was possible for you.**
Instant Results
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The magnificent result is that 4 months into our private coaching, Brittany Mirabilé booked a principal role in the upcoming feature film _Purge 3_ which will be in theaters July 2016. Not only is this her first major film role, but it's actually a principal character who is a tough, scary badass we see throughout the movie.
_Did you know that the Purge movie franchise was originally made for $3million dollars and grossed $90million dollars.
That means that millions of people will be seeing Brittany Mirabilé's breakout performance._
Not bad for a girl who always used to play everyone's kid sister, huh?
Yay, she's not playing the kid sister.
She's not playing the innocent.
She's not playing the black character who always gets killed by scene 2 of the horror flick.
Instead, she is totally cast against physical type and perfectly cast according to that "edgy, tough" part of the center of her range.
The strategy worked and now she's got the movie star credit to prove it.
You could do in a six week class, what it took Brittany 4 months of private coaching to accomplish.
I looked at her and said,
"Seriously, are you crae crae? First off, there are thousands of women with your first name, Brittany and your middle name Bridgette. But there is only one Black/Italian Brittany Mirabilé...and that unique mix will stick in the memory. Besides which, "racially ambiguous" actors are working like motherf*ckers because there's a whole lot less of them AND they can play 3, 4, 5 different races from black, to carribbean, to middle eastern, to latin, etc. So you get to audition 3 times as much as the regular black actors....pshawww...Let's get to work."
Brittany had to decide if she wanted to continue doing web series and student films that never saw the light of day or if she was ready to package herself and begin a marketing strategy that would get her major TV/Film auditions.
Brittany Mirabilé's F*ck It Moment
==========
Her F*ck It Moment arrived the day she bought her first coaching package with me. See, I require that all my clients finish the package in 3 months. After which time it expires. What that forces the client to do is stay on task with the weekly homework and finish the goals we've laid laid out for ourselves in the first session.
Brittany & Goal Setting
==========
The goals are have to be:
1. Measurable: set parameters that are completely within the your power to achieve
2. They must be concrete and specific.
Brittany's goal was to identify her type and package it so that she would get noticed in the industry. Well, that required the following:
**- Building her brand: which entails creating a hardcopy press kit and an online press kit consisting of : headshot, resume, reel, emotional chords, contact info. But here's the kicker: It's not just any old press kit...it's a a the commercial of the total you. Its sophisticated marketing strategy to get folks to feel the depths of your should just by looking at your picture. And pretty won't do that, nor will some vague idea of what you play in your head.**
You have to learn how to sell this brand and train your manager/agents to use the script you give them to sell you...
----------
The branding tools would be shaped by what her emotional brand is and what part of the industry was her focus. In Brittany's case, it was film/TV.
So, to recap, the steps Brittany took and the ones you'd be taking in my class are:
- Establishing your emotional types & creating a clear brand that sticks in the memory
- Targeting Industry professionals to get them to call you in a lot for Film/TV and get agents/managers to notice you and get excited about your work.
The Center of Range Exercise
==========
Brittany and I spent 3 hours fine-tuning this process. The Center of Range Exercise sked a lot of Brittany. She had to dig deep into acting choices, recurring powerful emotions in the body of work that she used to complete the Center of Range Exercise.
Everyone thinks they can talk to me for 15 minutes and decide that their emotional chord is a strong black woman fighting for justice.
That's some silly bullshit because that could be anyone. When the Center of Range Exercise is done well. The actor has spent a good 60 hours doing research and the 1:1 session with me is about 3 hours long.
If the Center of Range exercise is done correctly, what you come up will probably be characters and emotional chords usually played by people who look completely different from you in gender, race, age, language.
The key is that the Center of your range are your specific, archetypal (meaning eternal and universally human) emotional heartspots. Stuff that is so close to your soul that you could play that part with your eyes closed. And to figure that out, you gotta spend the time (Like Brittany did) and get it right. Because when you do, the results are extraordinary.
By the end our 3 hours of work, we had 4 major emotional chords that we could begin to package. Brittany always been cast as the sweet little sister with no edge because of her physical presentation. But her soul is a funny, tough over-achiever with a competitive edge. That's one of the things we learned from this exercise. With that in mind, we were able to shape her press kit to get her seen for stuff with more of an edge and character work even though she works the leading lady/ingenue thing just based on her looks.
**Getting the Center of Range exercise right creates opportunity, opens doors to work you never dreamed was possible for you.**
Instant Results
==========
The magnificent result is that 4 months into our private coaching, Brittany Mirabilé booked a principal role in the upcoming feature film _Purge 3_ which will be in theaters July 2016. Not only is this her first major film role, but it's actually a principal character who is a tough, scary badass we see throughout the movie.
_Did you know that the Purge movie franchise was originally made for $3million dollars and grossed $90million dollars.
That means that millions of people will be seeing Brittany Mirabilé's breakout performance._
Not bad for a girl who always used to play everyone's kid sister, huh?
Yay, she's not playing the kid sister.
She's not playing the innocent.
She's not playing the black character who always gets killed by scene 2 of the horror flick.
Instead, she is totally cast against physical type and perfectly cast according to that "edgy, tough" part of the center of her range.
The strategy worked and now she's got the movie star credit to prove it.
You could do in a six week class, what it took Brittany 4 months of private coaching to accomplish.
April Yvette Thompson
is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media. Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards, Babylon Fields, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc. Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty City The Exonerated(w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, etc
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival, Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony).
April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop. Her latest play, Black Lives is in development at NYTW. April has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe, Maggie Flanigan Studio and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company. April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts, NYTW and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.
EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA and Rutgers University, MFA AprilYvetteThompson.com
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